Monday, February 23, 2015

SBI Associates Clerks Exam General Awareness Practice Questions

1. Goodwill ambassador for the National games 2015 is .................
1) Dhoni
2) Sachin Tendulkar
3) Amitabh Bachhan
4) Amir Khan
5) None of these

2. In order to create space for banks to expand credit, RBI reduced the SLR from 22.0% to...
1) 21.75%
2) 20.0%
3) 20.5%
4) 21.5%
5) 21.0%

3. Currently, who among the following is the world's oldest monarch?
1) Queen Elizabeth II
2) Emperor of Japan
3) King of Thailand
4) Queen Victoria
5) Queen Diana

4. Which committee has submitted report on restructuring of FCI?
1) Abhijith Sen
2) M. S. Swaminathan
3) Shanta Kumar
4) Ayaesh Goya
5) Arvind Panagariya

5. World's largest vertical maze has been unveiled recently in .............
1) Taiwan
2) Tokyo
3) Dubai
4) Shanghai
5) Thailand

6. The "Tunnel of Time" is the autobiography of......
1) Rajni Kothari
2) M.S. Narayana
3) P. Chidambaram
4) R.K. Laxman
5) Amartya Sen

7. ICC has revoked the five − year ban imposed on Mohammad Amir. He is the bowler in ........
1) India team
2) Bangladesh team
3) Sri Lanka team
4) Pakistan team
5) Zimbabwe team

8. Recently, a first of its kind in the world economic valuation of tiger reserves has been conducted in India. As per the study which tiger reserves has highest annual flow benefits?
1) Corbett Tiger Reserve
2) Ranthambore Tiger Reserve
3) Periyar Tiger Reserve
4) Kanha Tiger Reserve
5) None of these

9. World Cancer day observed on ..............
1) 30 January
2) 12 March
3) 4 February
4) 24 March
5) 7 April

10. Which among the following states is the site for India's first International Institute of Music?
1) Kerala
2) Assam
3) Haryana
4) Madhya Pradesh
5) Telangana




11. 45th World Economic Forum annual meeting took place in .................
1) Washington
2) New York
3) Paris
4) Davos
5) None of these

12. Board of Financial Supervision (BFS) of RBI started in ...............
1) 2001
2) 1994
3) 1998
4) 2008
5) 2000

13. Recently, which one of the following schemes of union government has entered into Guinness book of world record?
1) MGNREGA
2) Prime Minister Jan Dhan Yojana
3) Swatcha Bharat Abhiyan
4) Indira Awas Yojana
5) Beti Bachao Beti Padhao

14. Finance Core Banking and McCamish Insurance products are going to be launched by ..............
1) Infosys
2) Tech Mahindra Satyam
3) TCS
4) Pantla
5) None of these

15. RBI permitted to open first Sharia based Non Banking Finance Company in .............
1) Goa
2) Jammu and Kashmir
3) Kerala
4) Odisha
5) AP

16. The bank which opened customer service point to extend financial inclusion targeting Urban Poor?
1) Union Bank of India
2) ICICI
3) SBI
4) Syndicate Bank
5) Yes Bank

17. Who among the following has won the women's and men's singles titles, respectively at Syed Modi International Badminton Championship?
1) Carolina Marina and P Kashyap
2) Saina Nehwal and K Srikanth
3) Saina Nehwal and P Kashyap
4) Saina Nehwal and Pullela Gopichand
5) None of these

18. The CRR is to be maintained by Commercial Bank in the form of ..........
1) Cash in hand at branches
2) Balance with other banks
3) Balance in a special account with RBI
4) Funds in the currency chest
5) Any of the above options

19. Which one of the following is a Credit Card association?
1) India Card
2) Master Card
3) SBI Cards
4) City Bank Cards
5) BOB Card

20. The United Nations general assembly has declared the year 2015 as .............
1) International Year of Seas
2) International Year of Water
3) International Awards
4) International Year of Soils
5) None of these

21. India financial system comprises of ...........
1) Scheduled commercial banks
2) Non-banking financial institutions
3) Urban cooperative banks
4) All of these
5) None of these

22. The "Channapatna toys" are a particular form of wooden toys that are manufactured
in which state?
1) Andhra Pradesh
2) Karnataka
3) Maharashtra
4) Kerala
5) Uttar Pradesh

23. Headquarters of SIDBI is located at ..........
1) Varanasi
2) Lucknow
3) New Delhi
4) Kolkata
5) Mumbai

24. The number of Foreign Banks operating in India are ...........
1) 20
2) 25
3) 28
4) 32
5) 35

25. Which of the following is an example of financial assets?
1) National Saving Certificates
2) Infrastructure bonds
3) Indira Vikas
4) Krishi Vikas
5) All of these

26. Who among the following has won the prestigious DSC Prize for Literature, one of the
South Asia's top literary awards?
1) Amrita Lahiri
2) Jhumpa Lahiri
3) Aravind Adiga
4) Amitav Ghosh
5) None of these

27. Which of the following banks has launched banking service on Twitter which allows customers
to transfer money using the social networking site, recently?
1) ICICI Bank
2) HDFC Bank
3) Axis Bank
4) Both 2 and 3
5) None of these

28. The Present Marginal Standing Facility (MSF) rate is ...............
1) 8.75%
2) 8.00%
3) 7.75%
4) 8.50%
5) None of these

29. ICC Twenty 20 World Cup 2016 will be held at .............
1) West Indies
2) Sri Lanka
3) Bangladesh
4) India
5) Australia

30. Axis Bank board reappointed ............. as the bank's managing director and chief executive officer (MD and CEO) for a three-year period
1) Shikha Sharma
2) Arundhathi Bhattacharya
3) Usha Anantha Subramanyam
4) Vijayalakshmi R Iyer
5) None

31. The Rara Lake is the biggest lake of ...........
1) Nepal
2) Sri Lanka
3) India
4) China
5) None of these

32. Co operative Bank in India has ....... system.
1) Two − tier system
2) Three − tier system
3) Four − tier system
4) Five − tier system
5) None of these

33. Which of the following bodies promoted Securities Trading Corporation of India Limited (STCI) jointly with the public sector banks?
1) SEBI
2) ICICI Limited
3) IDBI Limited
4) RBI
5) IRDA

34. On 19th January 2015 Reserve Bank of India asked banks to notify the Base Rate or the minimum lending rate, at least once in every .... months based on the cost of funds.
1) Three
2) Four
3) Five
4) Six
5) None of these

35. All venture Capital funds must be register with .................
1) RBI
2) SEBI
3) Registrar of Companies
4) Either 1 or 2
5) None of these

36. According to latest tiger census report (2015), which among the following states has recorded highest number of tigers?
1) Telangana
2) Tamilnadu
3) Andhra Pradesh
4) Kerala
5) Karnataka

37. The Pancheshwar Multipurpose Project (PMP) is a bi-nation hydropower project between .............
1) India & Bhutan
2) India & Bangladesh
3) India & Nepal
4) India & Australia
5) None of these

38. The National Financial Switch, the largest shared automated teller machines in India, is run by .............
1) Reserve Bank of India
2) Finance Ministry
3) National Payments Corporation of India
4) Only 1 and 2
5) None of these

39. To celebrate the power of voters, the Election Commission of India has been organizing "Matdata Mahotsava" in which city?
1) Hyderabad
2) New Delhi
3) Kolkata
4) Mumbai
5) Both 2 and 3

40. India's first and only container trans-shipment
terminal is in .............
1) Hyderabad
2) Mangalore
3) Ananthapuram
4) Vallarpadam
5) None of these

ANSWERS:
1-2, 2-4, 3-1, 4-3, 5-3, 6-4, 7-4, 8-3, 9-3, 10-1
11-4, 12-2, 13-2, 14-1, 15-3, 16-3, 17-3, 18-3, 19-2, 20-4
21-4, 22-2, 23-2, 24-4, 25-2, 26-2, 27-1, 28-1, 29-4, 30-1
31-1, 32-2, 33-4, 34-1, 35-2, 36-5, 37-3, 38-3, 39-2, 40-4